Questionnaire
concerning mass executions and mass graves
Township: Górki
Commune: Grotniki
District: Stopnica
Voivodeship: Kielce
1. Date and place of execution:
1 December 1944, Równiny hamlet, Górki village, Grotniki commune, Stopnica district.
2. Type of execution (shooting, hanging, etc.):
Shooting.
3. Personal data of the murdered victims:
Poles, Jews, foreigners: Poles.
Number of murdered victims: 11 people.
The victims were brought in from: 9 from the hamlet of Równiny, and 2 from the village of Komarów.
Surnames, ages, professions/occupations, addresses:
From the hamlet of Równiny:
| 1) | Stanisław Opałka, 27 years old, |
| 2) | Augustyn Curyło, 39 years old, |
| 3) | Stanisław Nowak, 29 years old, |
| 4) | Wincenty Nowak, 38 years old, |
| 5) | Ludwik Mostek, 38 years old, |
| 6) | Wojciech Papaj, 47 years old, |
| 7) | Jan Sekuła, 38 years old, |
| 8) | Leon Nowak, 28 years old, |
| 9) | Czesław Molisek, 23 years old. |
From Komorów:
Jan Gordach and Karol Rzesza, unknown in the commune.
All of them were farmers.
4. Is it known what the victims were accused of, whether the execution was carried out in retaliation, etc.?
Political victims.
5. Who carried out the execution (gendarmes, Gestapo men, SS men, policemen, the Wehrmacht)?
Gestapo men from Busko.
6. Are the surnames of the perpetrators known (provide the surnames if known)?
Gestapo men from Busko: „Hans”, Maczke, Paluch, Morawiec.
7. Were the corpses burnt or destroyed otherwise?
No.
8. Where were the corpses buried (provide the exact location)?
They were buried by their families in the village of Strożyska, Grotniki commune.
9. Description of the place of burial (graves, dimensions, estimated number of victims buried in one grave).
Eight separately, three in a common grave.
10. Were the corpses exhumed, were they officially reinterred (report)? If “yes” to the latter, then where?
No.
11. Are there any grounds for conducting their exhumation in the future?
No.
On 17 September 1945, the contents of the above questionnaire were officially confirmed by the head of Grotniki commune, Stanisław Skrzypczyński, with the Municipal Court in Busko-Zdrój.